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A drama following stories of characters from the Portuguese High Society.

Follows Tomás de Noronha, a History professor and a cryptoanalysis and ancient languages expert, who is hired to decipher an enigmatic message, but ends up on the trail of the true identity and mission of Christopher Columbus.

Luis Bernardo Valenca, a 37 year-old bachelor and owner of a small shipping company, is reveling in Lisbon's luxurious high society. King Dom Carlos invites him to become governor of Portugal's smallest colony, São Tomé e Principe.

A forbidden romance between a nun and King D. João V, which takes place in the eighteenth century. For this love, the King ignores common sense and takes the nun as a lover, a confidant, and a counselor. Based on Patrícia Muller's novel.

The year is 1759. Yet in the aftermath of the earthquake that destroyed Lisbon just four years earlier, in a political and economic crisis environment, Joseph I, King of Portugal (António Cordeiro) is the victim of an attack carried in one night in September when returning to the Royal Field after a meeting with his new mistress - the new Marchioness of Tavora (Sandra Cóias). After a first moment of hesitation and perplexity, the king instructs his prime-minister, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo (João DÁvila), to proceed to the constitution of a tribunal to find, arrest and judge those responsible for the crime. It's an excuse to wipe out the old nobility who resisted the lights. The families of the Duke of Aveiro (Júlio Cardoso) and the Marquis of Tavora (Henrique Viana) are accused of lese majeste via a spurious process, built on evidence whose political intent was clear. The destination was death in the largest execution that Portugal ever watched. But today, despite the rehabilitation of Tavora, this stain of shame and tragedy is present in the human memory. For many, is just the pain of childbirth where mordern Portugal is emerging.